This year there will be elections for the EAVP Board. If you are interested, please fill in the form below. This year the EAVP will also introduce the positions of Diversity Officer and Ethics Officer. The deadline for online application is 7th August 2024

The online application is very helpful but not mandatory. Any eligible member can stand up at the AGM before the voting and present their candidacy. To fill the online forme, please go here: https://eavp.org/board-form.

The available positions are:

1. President; who is the head of the Association and provides direction for the committee.
2. Vice-President; who supports the president in the duties for the Association and replaces the president when required.
3. Treasurer; who administers the budget of the Association.
4. Secretary; who is responsible for the protocols of the meetings in accordance with the President and the running of the Association.
5. Communications Manager; who is responsible for the internet presence and other publications of the Association.
6. Diversity Officer; who promotes and supports a diverse and inclusive culture in both the Association and the scientific research related to it/the scientific research of its members.
7. Ethics Officer; who develops the ethical guidelines expressed in the EAVP statutes and works with the Executive to promote and support ethical scientific research in terms of legislation, publication and open science.
8. Ordinary Board Members; 3 positions.
9. Assessor of the Treasurer; who revises, as auditor, the Treasurer’s annual budget report; 2 positions.

Article 17.5. of the EAVP Statute says: ” Re-election to the office of the Board of Directors is permitted once. The office of treasurer is exempt from the ban on a third term of office.”

If you wish to apply for more than one position, please make a different application for each position.

If you register to the meeting you can access the online live streaming, and view the online posters and presentations at this link:  EAVP2024online. The password was sent you by the organisers, together with other information on how to itneract with the presenters.

All information about the meeting programme can be found here: https://www.nhm.uio.no/english/research/events/conferences/EAVP2024/

Download the abstract book (download1; download2) of the 21st EAVP meeting (28th August – 1st September 2024).

This year meeting is a joint effort between the University of Oslo (Norway), University of Uppsala (Sweden) and the University Centre in Svalbard (Norway), and to be held in Longyearbyen, Svalbard (Norway).

EAVP 2024 is supported by a grant from the Norwegian Research Council.

The Third Circular of the EAVP 2023 is avaible together with the final programme and the abstract book and field trip guides.

Nee dmore inof? Visit the meeting website.

On Sunday, 7 May 2023, an article was published in the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo – reiterated in Nature (12 May 2023) – indicating that “Ubirajara jubatus“ would finally be repatriated to the Museu do Cariri in Brazil On Sunday 4th June 2023, as per the initial discussions between professors Kellner & Frey in February 2021. The final destination was confirmed after dialogues between the Brazilian Ministries of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) and of Foreign Affairs, the German Embassy in Brazil, and the Regional University of Cariri (URCA-CE) (MCTI, 16 May 2023). The EAVP warmly welcomes this news. However, it rejects the dearth of transparency in the whole process, and the lack of active involvement of scientists and museum staff – both from Brazil and Germany – in it. The Association firmly opposes this lack of transparency, which has resulted in misleading and conflicting narratives, adding to the uncertainty around a resolution to this issue.

Over the last few years, the EAVP’s ethics committee has carried out research into this process, contacting people in both countries and confirming that palaeontologists and curators have been excluded from most of it. With this statement, the EAVP calls for the active involvement of researchers and museum workers in all future repatriation processes, following the example of protocols already in place at other institutions.

The EAVP Board

Dear members, we are pleased to announce that the registration to the 19th annual Conference of EAVP is open!

Itwill take place is Benevento (Italy) and online from 27th June to 1st July 2022.

Circulars and abstract template are available to download here.

Abstract submission deadline 30th April 2022

We are pleased to announce that the EAVP and the host committee are able toprovide 10 travel grants. You can apply, after registration, here. Deadline 20th April

For more information visit the meeting’s website: https://2022eavp.wixsite.com/eavp2022

email: 2022eavp@gmail.com

The European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists stands with our Ukrainian colleagues at this difficult time. We are appalled by the loss of life and the destruction of Ukraine’s heritage. The EAVP was itself formed as an action against xenophobic attitudes and behaviours within the scientific community, uniting across former Cold War countries to make vertebrate palaeontological discourse at our meetings as accessible as possible.  Science requires mutual respect and trust, thus we roundly condemn states that conduct military incursions into sovereign nations, and express solidarity with our kindred Russian scientists who share this view.

EAVP is happy to announce the call for the EAVP Research Grants is now open. Visit the dedicated webpage for more information and to apply: ERG – EAVP Research Grants

For the 2021 the EAVP is raising the ERG grants up to 1000 Euros. In addition, understanding the difficulties likely to be encountered in using funds for travelling, for this call EAVP will also consider funding proposals focussed on the acquisition of new equipment for lab-based research. The membership requirement for being eligible to apply is reduced to 1 year.

Deadline: 30 Novembre 2021

Decision: 15 December 2021

Dear colleagues and friends,

it’s now finally available the second circular (download) of the 2021 EAVP meeting (5-9 July), and the online abstract submission is open!

Deadline for abstract submission is the 30th of April!

You will soon receive information for the registration and payment of the (very reduced) fees.

Dear colleagues and friends, 

Unfortunatelly, we must postpone (again, sigh) the on-site Benevento event to 2022, as we all hope to be able to travel freely across Europe by then.

However, because we all miss our meeting, the 18^th EAVP meeting will be online, from 6th to 9th July 2021, co-organised by several European institutions (Università di Firenze, Università del Sannio, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).

NEXT DEADLINE: Workshop/symposia/roundtable proposal – 28.02.21

You can find the new first circular here or in the dedicated website: https://sites.google.com/view/eavp2021. For further information you can contact the organising committee at 2021eavp@gmail.com

“This is the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists. Dear members, please listen closely: racists, fascists and conspiracy theorists are NOT welcome in our association! Let us stand together for Europe and a world in peace. We as scientists have a political mandate, and we should be ready to act. All those who are not willing to accept this are free to leave.”

We would like to encourage other associations of the scientific community to join in with a similarly clear statement.

“In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance” (Karl Popper).

#BlackLivesMatter #BlackInNature #BlackAFinSTEM #BlackandSTEM #antiracism #fossilsareforeveryone